Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Mount Pocono, PA USA
gallbladder or spinal stenosis surgery Posted: 04-14-08 00:04am
Well, I had the hida scan and the numbers
are high. My doctor did not know what that
meant so he asked the technician who did
the test, tech did not know what that
really meant but said that docs usually
take it out with high number, I don't have
the number.
I am 51, not obese but not svelt, on
estrogen for HRT, fair: Irish, and so on.
Grandmother had gallbladder, mother has
minor gallbladder issues and now me.
I have extreme pain in upper abdomen after
eating donuts, ice cream and now pizza, I
have given up donuts and ice cream but
pizza? can't do it!
The pain very, very often wakes me in the
middle of the night first time I thought
it was heart attack but reasoned with
myself and realized heart attacks usually
don't occur at night in sleep. It bores
through to my back, it travels up my neck
into my ear. It is really bad and now with
the last one, diarrhea and that is
impossible for me, I take high doses of
opiods for spinal stenosis (need surgery
for that soon legs going very numb) and I
always need to take senokot, 4 a day to
get things moving, but now the senokot is
not necessary at all with the diarrhea
from the gallbladder, and I totally empty
out with it and if I may be graphic here
its pretty nasty and lacks a lot of color.
If I get up and stand at the kitchen sink
drinking a very cold glass of water, and
try to make myelf belch and can acutally
belch a few times it seems to relieve it
somewhat. But it amazes me how painful it
is due to my opiod intake. Leaves me to
think the pain could be much, much worse.
So any doctors out there which should I do
first-the gallbladder or the spinal
stenosis. I figure it this way the
stenosis shoud be first because the nerve
damage most likely will be permanent the
longer I wait, the gallbladder will more
or less have to be done without haste and
it won't matter that I am recouping from
spinal fusion at that point. They will
have to do it.
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